Date of Award
Spring 2021
Project Type
Clinical Doctorate
College or School
CHHS
Department
Nursing
Program or Major
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Degree Name
Other
First Advisor
Susan J. Fetzer
Second Advisor
Kim Wolfe
Third Advisor
Anthony McLean
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Multiple roles contribute to the point of care glucose collection and insulin administration workflow. Diabetes care associations and safety advocates provide recommendations since the time-action profile of prandial insulin requires knowledge and performance to deliver insulin safely.
PROBLEM: Variation of practice in relation to the time that point of care glucose was collected and meal and insulin administration assessments were completed failed to meet parameters.
PURPOSE: A quality improvement project aimed to test the effect audit and feedback has on rapid acting insulin administration and point of care glucose collection practice at meals.
METHOD: Audit and feedback, a knowledge transfer-behavior change intervention, was tested to determine its effectiveness as a technique to translate evidence to practice. Audit and feedback cycles informed nurses of the goals, performance measures, and gaps to improve practice. A pre-test post-test study design was used. Point of care glucose and rapid acting insulin data was retrospectively audited from electronic medical records of a medical-surgical unit.
RESULTS: Post-intervention performance measures indicated the intervention was not effective. Variation persisted after the intervention. While the frequency of outcomes measures did not improve, the quality improvement process revealed information to inform clinical improvements for future quality improvement.
CONCLUSION: Audit and feedback as an intervention for knowledge transfer and behavior change remains a questionable intervention for translating evidence to practice. More evidence is needed of when and how audit and feedback will be most effective must be understood.
Recommended Citation
Hudon, Paula S., "Impact of Audit and Feedback on Timing Variation in the Point of Care Glucose Collection-Insulin Administration Workflow: A Quality Improvement Study" (2021). DNP Scholarly Projects. 53.
https://scholars.unh.edu/scholarly_projects/53